MAKING HIMSELF SECURE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 184, 25 July 1908, Page 4

MAKING HIMSELF SECURE

After the funeral of an old woman in a remote Yorkshire hamlet, her sons and daughters made a vigorous search for her will, hut without success, although they knew that she had prepared one shortlv before her death. '•What's ta done wi' it, Jock?" the eldest son asked the youngest, who. being unmarried and a great dunce, had always hung on to his mother's aprovstrings. "Tha's been in t' house all this tirne. = wi' nobody to watch thee, an' it looks a bit fishy. Hast ta burnt it?" •lock violently refuted the charge. " Why, Ah nobbut 'ad it in my 'ands once." he declared. "All, then, tha admits there wor a will?" cried the eldest brother, triumphantly. '•Of'eoorse there wor!" Jock frankly confessed. "She gave it to met' day afore she died, but Ah couldn't read a word of it, so I took it art an' buried it to keep it safe. Ah'm not going to let any brothers an' sisters get ahead o' roe. When AbYe leamt to read it for me sen, Ah shall dig that will up, but not a day earlier!"

■ And thoy had to "have the law on ■liim" before he would divulge the hiding place of the document.